Suboptimal Performance of Tesla Factory AI-Controlled Robots: A Case Study on Safe and Secure Manufacturing

October 8, 2016

A shortfall in weekly Model 3 production by 500 vehicles was observed, necessitating the temporary deployment of human workers to aid in lithium battery assembly. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). To help us improve trustworthy AI manufacturing processes, JOIN US
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tesla
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tesla
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tesla

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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